country has been giving people more freedom. you re going to have to do a little selling on that. our point is we need to preserve their benefits because government made promises that they ve organized the government around in order to make sure we can do that, you must reform it for those younger. they have bipartisan origin. they started from the clinton commission in the late 1990s. steve: he said my mom is a medicare recipient. they didn t run that. ainsley: it was interesting that if you watched 60 minutes, you had like a 20 minute piece here, a 20 minute piece here, and then their interview was a lot shorter. granted, 60 minutes is produced well in advance. so when this announcement came out on saturday, then they have the interview on sunday. steve: rush job. ainsley: right. so they couldn t play it all. but it s interesting what they decided to play and leave out. eric: very interesting. all weekend long i ve been taking notes on what different people have said
his culture. i ve yet to hear the romney campaign or romney say whether or not he approved of those deals that took place in 99 through 2002, not signing off on the deal itself, but conceptual, whether he thought they were bad things. that s the key issue here. yeah. but ryan sullivan, this is part of a much bigger campaign and, as joe klein said, a brush job, they re painting with a broadest of brush and it s got class warfare all over it and there are a lot of democrats and james carville was one of them, he came on last week saying, class warfare works and it s going to work against mitt romney. is that what we re watching? look at the undertones what we re talking about here. what s the dirty word in all this? rich. he s a rich guy. he s one of the rich guys. no, no, no, no. no, no, no. he s a rich guy who doesn t pay taxes. okay. first joe, joe, can i ask you what rich guy does?
to see. she died the night before the grammys. jennifer hudson blew the roof off the place. that was a rush job. jordin sparks, i was afraid when she started with i will always love you. only whitney could have done it. she did a tremendous job tonight. tremendous. and jordin is in the movie sparkle that will open in august. whitney s last movie. and alicia keys with stevie wonder. that was another great moment between the two of them. phenomenal. stevie wonder doing higher ground. a little empire state of mind. now the unofficial theme song for new york. any low lights for us, things you didn t like? apart from the artist lip-syncing? yeah, yeah. too much of that. that does happen. that does happen. it was cool, though. think about the awards. it comes from the fans. there s a grassroots feel to it
all of them lean left, the exception is one who was a teacher. big change. one of the guys who said it haunted him for a whole time. then it had to be rewritten to, well, since he was hold about it a couple of weeks ago. kimberly: by the post. eric: it sounds like, bob, this was a rush job to get this out there and in the nick of time. greg: i ll tell you what. this is the washington post, give them credit for doing obama campaign work. they are going to get what they wanted which is the next dibs on the next national security leak. andrea: this was a paper that turn down nixon. now they re doing drive-by journalism. the family of genre leased a statement and said it s factually incorrect. right? kimberly: they said it didn t happen. what kind of credibility does the newspaper bob: how would they know? kimberly: the timing of all of this. the washington post, in fact, acknowledged that one of the major sources of the story was an obama campaign volunteer in 2008.
all of them lean left, the exception is one who was a teacher. big change. one of the guys who said it haunted him for a whole time. then it had to be rewritten to, well, since he was hold about it a couple of weeks ago. kimberly: by the post. eric: it sounds like, bob, this was a rush job to get this out there and in the nick of time. greg: i ll tell you what. this is the washington post, give them credit for doing obama campaign work. they are going to get what they wanted which is the next dibs on the next national security leak. andrea: this was a paper that turn down nixon. now they re doing drive-by journalism. the family of genre leased a statement and said it s factually incorrect. right? kimberly: they said it didn t happen. what kind of credibility does the newspaper bob: how would they know? kimberly: the timing of all of this. the washington post, in fact, acknowledged that one of the major sources of the story was an obama campaign volunteer in 2008.